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Federal (USV)

Private

Ziba Alden Cook

(c. 1843 - 1911)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Brodhead, he enlisted in Company C, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 5 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

Transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 12 December 1863, and mustered out on 5 March 1865.

After the War

By 1884 he was living in Victoria, IL.

References & notes

Basic information from Bryant1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Further details from family genealogists online. Zibiah/Ziba is a name in the Bixby family, of which our soldier was decended.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

1911; burial in Galva Cemetery, Knox County, IL

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 412 - 413 [AotW citation 15186]

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